Tag Archive: music

Friday

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band played at Milan’s San Siro Stadium on 3 July 2016. For the last few weeks… months… oh shiiiiit it’s been months, I’ve tried to find a way to explain what went down that night. I’ve tried every day, and honestly, I’m no closer to telling you what happened. All I…

Monday

As far as boardwalks go, this is a pretty good one. In fact, in my experience of boardwalks, I’d say it’s the best. This is the boardwalk in Asbury Park, New Jersey. Bruce Springsteen describes it as his “adopted hometown”, the town that has inspired lyric after lyric – songs laced with stories of the…

Thursday

Oh Bruce Springsteen fans – a great bunch of people. No need to talk about things like the weather when you realise you’re in the company of another Bruce fan. So a few weeks back I was sitting in a room full of fans as part of Classic Album Sundays, a series of events celebrating…

Wednesday

A few weeks back Jake Clemons played in the living room of a small town I can’t pronounce in The Netherlands. This all starts back in January 2014, when in the pit of one of Bruce Springsteen‘s Cape Town concerts I met a gorgeous Dutch girl called Ellen. Thanks to super advanced technology (the internet…

Thursday

There was a crotch thrusting, fist clenching, lip twitching sweaty night of passion in Italy this week. Don’t worry, it’s not how it might sound. But it was just as exciting. Always fond of a jaunt to Italy, and with Springsteen’s touring schedule up in the air for the foreseeable future, I booked tickets to…

Monday

As a Springsteen fan I often feel surrounded by mediocre, lack lustre versions of his songs. Pale imitations. Clumsy forgeries of masterworks. But not always. One Welsh singer-songwriter has spectacularly, and very successfully, nailed it. Recording an album of covers can be one of a musician’s most challenging tasks: how do you remain true to…

Thursday

If you are flying all the way from London to South Africa for three Bruce Springsteen concerts in Cape Town, the logical thing to do would be to go to the fourth concert in Johannesburg too. I’m not very logical, so I didn’t realise this until the day after Springsteen’s third and final Cape Town…

Sunday

“You are a very boring person going to all of these concerts so many times on your own.” I was on a high after my third night of watching Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band play in Cape Town, South Africa, to be greeted with this statement by my taxi driver. I’ve been called…

Monday

Ten years ago I became a little bit obsessed, as I have a tendency to do, with the saying Carpe Diem. I heard it somewhere, I think from some hippie traveller with dread locks and patchwork trousers, and my friend and I latched onto it, hollering it at every opportunity presented to us. “Another cup…

Sunday

Not long ago I asked Bruce Springsteen fans on my Burgers and Bruce Facebook and Twitter to tell me their favourite little known or rarely played Springsteen songs, and the version they love the most too. I helped the Springsteen fan over at Mr Hyde put together a little list, but you sent me so…